The Miskitu People of Awastara / / Philip A. Dennis.
"Most anthropologists who have lived among other people . . . feel a periodic need to go back," writes Philip A. Dennis in the introduction to this book. "Fieldwork gives you a stake in the people themselves, a set of relationships that last the rest of your life . . . and when the ti...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2004 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | LLILAS New Interpretations of Latin America Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHAPTER ONE Introduction
- CHAPTER TWO Who Are the Miskitu People?
- CHAPTER THREE The Village of Awastara
- CHAPTER FOUR Life in Victor and Plora's Family
- CHAPTER SIX Turtle Fishermen and Other
- CHAPTER SEVEN Working in the Plantations
- CHAPTER EIGHT School Days
- CHAPTER NINE Miskitu Christianity
- CHAPTER TEN Health and Curing
- CHAPTER ELEVEN Public Affairs and Community Development
- CHAPTER TWELVE Tibang and Concepts of Personhood
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Leaving Awastara
- MISKITU GLOSSARY
- REFERENCES CITED
- INDEX